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Quotes by Historian
"Immigrants do more than help us win our wars, or set up cleaning shops or ethnic restaurants."
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"There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion."
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"The pathetic almost always consists in the detail of little events."
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"The left has lost touch with popular opinion, thereby making it possible for the right to present itself as the party of common sense."
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"Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning."
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"The puritan hated bear baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators."
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"Our sympathy is cold to the relation of distant misery."
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"The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it."
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"Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice."
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"Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty and dies with chaos."
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"The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle."
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"That Rome was comparatively great and wealthy is certain."
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"With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his tracks in the war. When I got there, there was a certain satisfaction in finding I had it right - it does look like that."
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"There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing."
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"The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers."
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"The primary source of the appeal of Christianity was Jesus - His incarnation, His life, His crucifixion, and His resurrection."
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"We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance."
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"Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes."
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"History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind."
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"Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems."
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"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."
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"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."
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"A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period."
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"A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar."
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art."
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"To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice."
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"You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one."
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"The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly."
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